Nature of Entrustment - Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa

Zusammenfassung Drawing on research among Luo people in western Kenya and abroad, this book examines how Luo assess obligations to intimates and strangers, including the dead and the not-yet-born. It focuses on nonmonetary forms of exchange and entrustment, moving beyond anthropology's traditional understanding of gifts, loans, and reciprocity.

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• Authors: Parker Shipton, Parker MacDonald Shipton, Shipton Parker, Shipton Parker MacDonald
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2007
• EAN: 9780300116014
• ISBN: 978-0-300-11601-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 248 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series; Yale Agrarian Studies (Hardcov; Yale Agrarian Studies Series; Yale Agrarian Studies (Hardcov; Yale Agrarian Studies (YUP)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Africa, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Physical anthropology